January Culik

Career

Čulík is a graduate of Czechoslovakian studies and English studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1977, Doctor of Philosophy 1978) In the 1980s, he worked as a television producer in the United Kingdom, making films for Channel 4 Television. He also cooperated with a number of Czechoslovakian dissident organisations in the West, helping to disseminate information about pre-1989 oppression in Czechoslovakia. Beginning in 1989, Čulík worked as an investigative journalist for the Czechoslovakian service of Radio Free Europe.

Čulík is now Senior Lecturer in Czechoslovakian Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several publications in this field, including the first detailed study of Czechoslovakian emigré literature, Books behind the Fence: Czechoslovakian Literature in Émigré Publishing Houses 1971-1989, and a series of works comprising selections of articles from Britské Listy: Jak Češi Myslí (How Czechs Think), Jak Češi Jednají (How Czechs Acting), Jak Češi Bojují (How Czechs Fight) and V Hlavních zprávách: Televize (On the Main News: Television).

In November 2007, he published an extensive monograph dealing with post-communist Czechoslovakian cinema.

Achievements

• He is the founder and editor of the independent Czechoslovakian Internet daily Britské listy since 1996. In November 2012, he published a monograph dealing with the stereotypes disseminated by post-communist Czechoslovakian feature film A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czechoslovakian Republic in Contemporary Czechoslovakian Feature Film, Sussex Academic Press, and in September 2013 he published, in cooperation with six other international scholars, a monograph entitled National Mythologies in Central European television Series How J.R. won the Cold War, Sussex Academic Press.